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Given her frequent sojourns, a condensed electronic portfolio is the best, and easiest, way to access the breadth of Monika's writing and editing experience.

Travel
Bespoke - Bandit Bicyclists in Budapest - Ryan Air Magazine: It might sound cheesy, but bicycling in Budapest is a 'wheely' good time; find out why I think so. New!
Bicycles on the Bosphorus - Easy Jet Magazine: Escape traffic jams in Turkey's largest city on two wheels, featured article.
Buda vs Pest - Wizzit Magazine: Why popular Pest is the best side of the blue Danube.

Sundown on Szeged: The Hungarian city's warm, Mediterranean style offers open-air concerts, Art Nouveau, and pedestrian walkways that channel a history of water and sun.
Just Outside Dubai: On the blog for "global nomads" Janera, Monika reports on Dubai: your best daydream if you come on a tourist visa with a pocketbook full of cash, but if come clinging to the underbelly of the modernist project, life is far from spoon-fed.
Above the Kebab Shop: A weekend with Turkish migrants in London brings stories of Italian beaches, human trafficking rings, and the smell of human perseverance.

Human-Interest Features

Guardian Angels:
Védono, part of the comprehensive maternity care that the Hungarian health care system - despite all of its deficiencies and criticisms - has bequeathed upon women.
Pampered Poochies: In Budapest, beauty goes to the dogs; an increasing number of dogs in Hungary are getting beauty treatments once reserved for their owners.
Edible Beauty: Budget facials in Budapest might be made from the fodder of grocery stores, but it's much better by professionals. Ooh, relaxation.
Hail a Padernoster: Comically scary conveyer belt-style historic elevators might be illegal, but with a little initiative, they're still available to ride.

Guidebooks, Travel Guides
Hungarian Transportation Guide: A comprehensive guide to getting around Budapest, and greater Hungary by foot, tram or train.

Food and Wine
Monika writes about where and how gastronomy intersects with life as much as possible since she loves, in equal parts, cooking at home and eating out (even in parks). She particularly likes colorful vegetables. Read a few of her restaurant reviews here:
The Perfect Imperfect Budget Thai Relaxation Combo
A Kosher Slice that Won't Make the Classical Pizza Gods Angry

Humor
Ambitious Grad Gets Tool for Unsuccessful Career: Yes, she's occasionally written satire for an infamous cosmopolitan dish on Budapest, pestiside.hu.

Editing

Monika has extensive experience editing. She's worked as section editor for papers, magazines and newsletters, put together websites, written marketing brochures and coordinated public relations packages for new initiatives. She has written and edited website copy for Joobili.com, Amazon.com, Central European University, Otthom Centrum, and Stonington Gallery.
In addition, she was an editor and consulting editor for two travel writing books at the University of Washington.
Here are a few selected examples of her work:

Dive team to scour Danube for Queen Mary's lost belongings
More foreign students mysteriously "disappear" in Hungary

Fiction

Chicken Paprika - A shortsighted recipe transforms into colors and memories (
Finalist for the SPUSA Fiction Prize, 2008)

 

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